Without Reservation

Alaskan native John E. Smelcer's poems are "clear, rueful, courageous, sardonic, hard-lived, and backed up with a big heart and life-knowledge," as poet Gary Snyder says. Smelcer, the only surviving speaker, reader, and writer of his native language, Ahtna, includes several poems in his native language. W. P. Kinsella says "This is poetry as it should be, without a wasted word, with unparalleled attention to sound and rhythm."

Alaskan Native John E. Smelcer is the only surviving speaker, reader, and writer of his native language, Ahtna. He is the author of three other poetry books, Riversongs, Songs from an Outcast, and Changing Seasons, and two poetry chapbooks

Acknowledgments

vii

Returning the Gift

1

(1)

Indian Scalper

2

(1)

An Indian Poet Apologizes for His Color

3

(1)

After a Sermon at the Church of Infinite Confusion

4

(1)

An American Indian Dreams the American Dream

5

(1)

An Indian Boy Dreams of Being Billy Mills

6

(1)

The Gossips

7

(1)

The Last Fancy Dancer

8

(1)

It's All in the Blood

9

(1)

Bonfires

10

(1)

The Book of Genesis, Revised for American Indian History

11

(3)

The Incomplete & Unauthorized Definition of American Indian Writers

14

(4)

High Anxiety

18

(1)

How to Conquer the New World

19

(1)

An Indian Boy Dreams of Michael Jordan

20

(1)

Hymn Singer

21

(1)

Silas Redcorn Falls in Love

22

(1)

Indian Giver

23

(1)

Red America

24

(1)

In the House of Worship

25

(1)

Electric Dreams

26

(1)

Poverty

27

(1)

This is Just to Say

28

(1)

Kinship

29

(1)

My Conversation with a Fox (English)

30

(1)

My Conversation with a Fox (Ahtna Athabaskan)

31

(1)

Hunter's Luck (English)

32

(1)

Hunter's Luck (Ahtna Athabaskan)

33

(1)

So Begins the Lasting Silence

34

(1)

Lost and Found

35

(1)

Mistaken Identity

36

(1)

The Price of Leaving Indian Country

37

(1)

Riversong

38

(1)

So It Goes

39

(1)

Supper Prayer for the Soon-to-be-Eradicated

40

(1)

If Textbooks Told the History of America the Way They Tell American Indian History

41

(1)

One Day on the Weegotskrood Indian Reservation

42

(1)

Tea With a Bull Moose

43

(1)

This Side of Eternity

44

(1)

Prayer Singer

45

(1)

Beading Poetry

46

(1)

The Scent of Poverty

47

(1)

Affirmative Action

48

(1)

Indian Summer

49

(1)

My Indian Grandmother Speaks to Animals

50

(1)

Dreamcatcher

51

(1)

Dandelions in Full Bloom

52

(1)

Exodus

53

(2)

Sunday Drive

55

(1)

The Indian Poet at a Reading

56

(1)

Indian Time

57

(1)

Indian Social Security

58

(1)

How the West Was Won

59

(1)

Cowboys & Indians

60

(1)

The Rise of Christianity

61

(1)

Real Indian

62

(1)

Dzi'di'da

63

(1)

Dead Man's Curve

64

(1)

The Better Part of Me

65

(1)

A Winter Walk With Sorrow

66

(1)

Call of the Wild

67

(1)

Cillem Quellra

68

(1)

Elvis in Bear Country

69

(1)

In the House of Blue Light

70

(1)

Hunter's Lament

71

(1)

January, After a Cold Spell

72

(1)

Kaktovik Whale Hunters

73

(1)

On Leaving Alaska

74

(1)

Living Jack London

75

(1)

The Hunter

76

(1)

Song of a Yupik Seal Hunter

77

(1)

Spending the Night on the Klutina River

78

(1)

This Side of Midnight

79

(1)

Trail's End

80

(1)

Tracks

81

(1)

The White Silence

82

(1)

The Dance

83

(1)

Redemption

84

(1)

Rebel

85

(1)

Kinfolk

86

(1)

A Fisherman's Heaven

87

(1)

Reservation Blues

88

(1)

Solitary Man

89

(1)

Fathers & Sons

90

(1)

The Night of My Boyhood Rape

91

(1)

Spring on the Kenai Penninsula

92

(1)

Epiphany

93

(1)

Pilgrims Landing

94

(1)

Reunion

95

(1)

Tin Man

96

(1)

Thanksgiving

97

(1)

Gray Thunder

98

(1)

Talkeetna Fish Camp

99

(1)

The Snow Has No Voice

100

(1)

Climbing Down the Mountain

101

(1)

Grave Robbers

102

(1)

What Comes Around

103

(1)

Repossession

104

(1)

Winner Take Nothing

105

(1)

A Depressed Poet's New Year's Resolution

106

(1)

Writer's Block

107

(1)

About the Author

108

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